A new year is finally here!!

Happy New Years!!! 

I am happily welcoming 2014. This year will be a much better year than last. 

I was blessed with many new and great things this year, and some that just sucked! 

I am loving looking back at pictures of my sweet little girl. Lots of fun first this year. Rolling over, crawling, saying her first words, clapping , reaching for me, giving kisses and walking just a few of some of the fun things we got witness. She is such a spunky little girl. I see so much of me in her and a lot of her daddy ;).  Next year will bring more firsts and I can't wait. 

Lots of other great things this year includes weddings and babies and home purchases, but one I won't forget to mention is my most amazing new friends I have made here in Huntsville. They are such a wonderful group of girls. When perry got his new job this year I knew we were here to stay. No more what ifs or maybes about moving somewhere else. We were staying. I finally made an effort and made some new friends. It's hard to live in a town and not have many friends for me. I'm used to my girlfriends back home who are always together and doing things ( I still love y'all too :) ) it's been nice to have friends that are in the same stage of life as I am. 

I'm looking forward to 2014 and all the fun that will come. 

See ya 2013!! You won't be missed!! 

Hers a recap of some of my favorite moments of 2013! Click the link below. 

http://fgr.am/f/pg7bIwGy6i

Weekend Re-Cap

What a great weekend it's been. As much as I love traveling to Birmingham to see the Fam it's nice when we can stay home and enjoy the things we have going on around the house. Friday night we had some friends over we haven't seen in forever over to hang out and grill and catch up.

Saturday morning enjoyed the morning with just the three of us and relaxed around the house. The rest of the afternoon we spent out shopping. For nothing in particular, but just getting out and looking around. We went to a few stores had lunch and finished out our outing with some shaved ice. :) The little one was exhausted we came home to a long nap and played outside for a little bit. We purchased Vi a walker to play in and she loved it. Here are some of the pics from that evening.

 

 

 

Today was another lazy morning followed by a little light cleaning and yardwork (well perry did yardwork) after we decided to load up and go to the pool for just a little while so we could swim before nap time. I love taking Violet to the pool. She absolutely loves water. Kicks her little feet and splashes in the water. Today she was so exhausted she lasted about and her by the time we were getting ready to leave she was already asleep in my arms in the pool. We all took a great 2hour nap after that. We went ahead and went back after nap time swam for a little bit and cam back to hang out outside. She of course played in her walker and was swinging away for what seemed like forever. She was definitely worn out again. She ate her squash and carrots and had a a bath and was out by 7:30.

 

Now I get to do one of my all time favorite things and that's sit here and enjoy some alone time on the porch with my man. Nothing like our porch conversations talking about the things we want to do in the future and talk about our little girl.

 

 

 

That about wraps it up. We are calling it a successful weekend. Next weekend is Violets first fourth so I'm looking forward to all that has in store.

Have a great week!

 

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Growing so fast..

My baby girl is getting so big. Everything is happening so fast. One thing I have learned since becoming a mom is once you think you are on a schedule it changes. She changes every day. Teething aside she is a very happy baby. Over the last few months a lot has changed we stopped breastfeeding at month 5 and are now starting solid foods this week. She loves it! We have tried peas, green beans, and carrots. I did give her bananas once but i have heard that it can cause constipation so we are putting that off for later. Plus I decided to start with veggies instead.  To be the WROST eater in the world solids has been great for us.

My daughter is what you would call a snacker it takes her an hour to finish 4 ounces. She is very distracted and hates to eat.. She eats as much as she can until she is tired of having to work for it and she is done. This is why nursing was a nightmare for me. Hopefully our next one will  be a little easier to nurse and we can get longer than 5 months.

Since we started formula our lives have been sooooooo much easier. I can get out of the house for a few hours with her and not worry about her having to eat every hour so thats nice. We are starting to venture out a little more. She comes to the gym with me and plays in the nursery for an hour. We have also let her start swimming this month which she loves!!!! (picturs to follow)This kid loves to swim she kicks her little feet and splashes her little hands in the water. Hopefully she will be a swimmer like I was.

She is outgrowing most of our favorite things from outfits to our swing. We may have a few weeks left in the swing she is just getting to heavy for it and I don't want it to get squeaky because I want to be able to use it again with the next one.

Also, this week she started making an effort to crawl. I saw her on the monitor crawl from one end of the crib to the other, but when I got her out of the crib and put her on the floor all she would do is bounce on her knees. I will try and post the video of this.

Her 4-6 month favorites:

• Jump-a-roo
• Her Feet
• Swimming
• Her Crib
• Cartoons - she loves miss spider and the backyardagans 
• Our dog jack (she smiles and laughs every time she sees him)

Here are some pictures from the last month or so~! Enjoy..